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Sarah Anne Dorsey (née Ellis; February 16, 1829 – July 4, 1879) was an American novelist and historian from the prominent southern Percy family. She published several novels and a highly regarded biography of Henry Watkins Allen, governor of Louisiana during the years of the American Civil War. It is considered an important contribution to the literature of the Lost Cause. By 1876 Dorsey was a widow and, when learning of Jefferson Davis' misfortunes, she invited him to visit her plantation of Beauvoir and use a cottage. He ended up living there the rest of his life, and their friendship created a scandal, but both ignored it, and his second wife, Varina Davis, also came to stay. In 1878, Dorsey realized she was terminally ill, rewrote her will, and bequeathed her property to Jefferson Davis. He wrote his history of the Civil War there and began his autobiography. ==Biography== Sarah Anne Ellis was born to Mary Malvina Routh and Thomas George Percy Ellis, both from wealthy planter families, in Natchez, Mississippi. Her father Thomas, a successful planter, was a member of the famed southern Percy family. In addition to writers and prominent people of the nineteenth century, in the twentieth century, it included notable politicians, lawyers and writers such as Senator LeRoy Percy, William Alexander Percy, Walker Percy, and the historian William Armstrong Percy III. Sarah Anne Ellis was the niece of Catherine Anne Warfield and Eleanor Percy Lee, the “Two Sisters of the West,” who while young published two volumes of poetry together. Catherine Anne Warfield went on to publish a number of novels, which achieved significant popular acclaim, including ''The House of Bouverie'', a gothic fiction in two volumes, which was a bestseller in 1860. She and Ellis became quite close after her sister Eleanor died in 1849, with Sarah Anne encouraging her to write again.〔Wyatt-Brown 1994, p. 128.〕 Sarah Anne’s father died when she was nine. Her widowed mother Mary soon remarried to Charles Gustavus Dahlgren, of Swedish descent. Her stepfather, who saw great potential in Sarah, provided her with a first-rate education, engaging as her tutor Eliza Ann DuPuy, the same woman who had inspired and trained her aunts Catherine and Eleanor.〔Wyatt-Brown 1994, pp. 124–125.〕 Later, about 1838-1841, he sent her to Madame Deborah Grelaud’s French School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in the 1790s by a refugee from the French Revolution. Mme Grelaud was a Huguenot, and the school was Episcopal.〔Wyatt-Brown 1994, p. 124.〕 There Sarah excelled in music, painting, dancing, and languages, quickly gaining fluency in Italian, Spanish and German, as well as French.〔 At the school, she met the older Varina Banks Howell, whom she would meet later in life again as the wife of Jefferson Davis. During her studies in Philadelphia, Ellis found her most exciting teacher to be Anne Charlotte Lynch. (Later after her marriage, Anne Lynch Botta started the first and most famous salon in Manhattan of the 19th century. She wrote the ''Handbook of Universal Literature'' (1860), which remained in print for fifty years. At her salon, the circle of intellectuals included Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She frequently welcomed visitors such as Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Charles Kingsley.)〔Wyatt-Brown 1994, p. 125.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Dorsey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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